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Farming Simulator 25has a lot of settings to tweak that dramatically change how your game works. These settings range from speeding up time, to the amount of days in a month, to certain specific farming difficulty settings, and quite a few others.
One of the settings that’s going to impact what you do and when you do it more than any other setting is seasonal growth. With seasonal growth selected, you’re going to have a limited selection of crops that you can grow and harvest at different points throughout the year, forcing you to plan around the calendar or risk wasting resources.
How Seasonal Growth Works
Seasonal Growthcan be toggled on and off in the Game Settingssection, under theSeasonscategory. When toggled on, you’ll want to start paying special attention to your Crop Calendar.
The Crop Calendar
TheCrop Calendar displays every crop that you can grow and harvest throughout the yearin the middle of the screen. It lists every month, sectioned into chunks of three: one each for Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.
Each crop’s planting season isshown as the green lines on the calendar. The months that these lines intersect are the months that these plants can be safely planted. Most plants fall neatly into a certain season in this regard, or at least solidly in one season, with a month or two stretching into another.
Theorange lines indicate when your crops can be safely harvested. If the crops are left past this period of time, they’ll wither and die, and the whole process would have been for nothing. The section of blank space between the green and orange lines indicate how long the crop is going to take to grow.
The weather forecast is also going to be important in your decision-making. Youdon’t want to harvest on rainy daysif it can be helped, because it’s going to cut the amount you harvest in half.
Crops To Plant In Spring
Spring is going to be the months when you have themost crop options. This is when almost every crop in the game can be successfully planted. You’ll get to make some real decisions in regards to not justwhat crops you want to sell, but whatcrops you want to grow, harvest, and use further on in a production line.
March - October
Year-Round
It’s a good idea to check theGrowth section of the maponce a day to check and see which crops are available to harvest, especially if you have fields away from your primary location. It can get easy to lose track and waste a field’s worth of crops by letting them wither.
What To Do In Spring
Much of Spring is going to be spent taking care of your fields andseeding a large amount of your crop for the year. Unless you’ve got a vast array of fields overall, you’ll be making decisions on what crops to plant and what crops to skip.
What to plant and what to skipdepends entirely on your goals. If you’re going to sell the crops raw, check to see how much each crop is valued when harvest season comes around, and plant the ones that will net you the most profit.
You can hold onto your crops and store them in a siloto be sold when the price is higherif you can afford the time to wait.
If you’re planning on using the food for another purpose, like a production line or food for livestock, plan accordingly. Acannery would be a versatile option, allowing you to can a wide variety of crops and gaining more profit from them. A more specific instance would be seeding for a grain mill, where you can make flour out of many different Spring crops.
Crops To Plant In Summer
Planting is going to become a bit more focused in the Summer. There are fewer options, and many of these can be planted in both the Spring and Summer, meaning theymay already be planted.
What To Do In Summer
Summer is going to be split betweenharvesting and seeding, depending on what you’ve chosen to do in Spring.
Because of the harvesting, you’ll have the possibility of someincome coming in, which could help you invest further in your farm, either with more equipment, a new factory, a new field, and so on. It’s a great time to start thinking abouthow you’d like to expand your farmfor the following year, as well.
This will be the first month available toplant canola, and since canola takes almost an entire year to fully grow, it’s agood idea to do that in August. That way, it’s ready by the following July if you’re planning on using canola for anything.
Crops To Plant In Fall
Fall is themost specialized season when it comes to planting new crops, with only two crops specifically suited for the fall (three if you count canola, which is late Summer/early Fall). Because of this, it’s going to either be a particularly exciting time of year if these are the crops that you plan on doing a lot with, or it can be a little bit more dull if these crops are simply going to be grown and sold raw.
What To Do In Fall
In terms of crops, fall is going to be a very simple time of year, because of the scarcity of what you can plant. It will still eat up a lot of time if you plant a lot of these crops, but you could forego doing some of that in favor of somefield maintenanceor at least keeping some of the fields clear to maintain them in the winter.
Fall is also an easy season to spend some extra timelooking after your animalsif you have any. Expanding their habitation, keeping their population where you want it, andstoring enough food for them for the wintershould be priorities here.
February - March
October - November
While it is still technically Winter,Cotton can be planted in February at the earliest, which still leaves at least two months of time to fill before then. Cotton is going to take up a field for the entirety of the growing period of every other crop, so be very sure that you want to commit to it before you plant it.
What To Do In Winter
Winter is filled with quite a few unique things. Snow is going to cover the ground, and if you have places you need to be, itcan be a hazard to you and your vehicles. Salting the roads is a good way to ensure it doesn’t become too big of a problem, and a snowplow is going to carve you a path across your farmland.
Winter can be spent doing work around your factory, planning out your farm’s expansion, or taking care of your animals.Many crops peak in price in the winter, so taking your crops out of your silos to sell can be quite lucrative in these months.
